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MILLER'S LECTURES. 
LECTURE, VII. 
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ar, Than art worthy 
to take the hook, tnt to ,i,i,•tt tte...eoli thereof:. Tor 
thou wast slaas,attd i.e-t red:einel as to God by thy 
blood out the evory �
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list nt, so4 bust rake, us mom me tisS king, 
svel prie,ts; aid we clad reign so the earl h 
G. 9, 10. 
There to snob harmetry, bsetey, and knowl• 
'edge in every pail if the wen{ of God, that 
ths Bible student, whims., heart is interested in 
the R.11110, hes vitae, While reading, been led 
to step and felutire the order, wiadein, end 
light which :tiret.1111011 his enraptured vision, 
at the unfehling ef the tiger, umd truths 
which, until that mainetn, �1„), in 
'darkness, deubt, and obscurity, and seemed 
ea be wrapped up in a mysterious veil that 
almost makes the reader quail, and come to 
the conelusion that he is treading on forbidden 
zreand; but, perhaps, in an unexpected MO. 
Anent, the inspired penman, seemingly ...having 
anticipated our %nal ance or ilarknessealitows 
outs spark of that live coal which hatitouched 
his ?ye, and our darkness is dispelled, igno-
trance vanishes before the fulness of knowl-
'edge of the word of God, and we stand 
treproved and admonished for our stupidity 
and ignerance in the figures aid truths before 
explained. Our text in a brilliant spark of 
that fire which is upon the altar between the 
chetubirn, and gives us a clear ray or light to 
discover the allusion of the figures contained 
ie. the fourth and fifth chapters of this book. 
'it is convoyed unto us by way of a chorus, 
like the angel's song at the birth of our 
Saviour in Bethlehem of Judea. It explains 
to us, in a divine song, what tile hour beasts 
are, and gives a key to unlock the mystery 
of the twenty-four elders, and clearly shows 
who opens the seals of the book. I shall, in 
illustrating this subject, inquire, 
1, W bu they were that sung this new song; 
Show the song, and the occasion of it; 
Speak of the reign and the place where. 
I. We are to inquire who ate the singers 
in this grand chorus. The prophet calls them 
"the fuer beasts," or, as it might have been 
inure properly translated, four animate be-
ings; and the "four and twenty elders," he 
also calls them "saints." See the 801 verse. 
"And when he had taken the book, the 
four and twenty elders fell down before the 
Lamb, having every one of them harps and 
golden vials full of odors, which aro the 
prayers of the saints." Then comes in our 
text, "And they sung a new song," &e.—
The four beasts is a ligerative representation 
of the whole New 'is,stament church, not 
only in character, but in chronology, repre-
senting the four different stages of trial 
through which the church should pass in her 
pilgrimage in the wilderness of this world, 
tteiuro she would enter i he visible kingdom of 
her glorious Redeemer, the New Jerusalem, 
and reign on the earth. And every individual 
Christian, who may live any length of time 
after his conversion, pusses through some or 
all of these stetes of trial. The four rind 
twenty. elders are the twelve patriarchs, 
which ale sometimes vuiile.l prop/nee, and the 
twelve tilmoetltns or the Lanth, Fur it in said. 
we aie built on the 1.rophrts and apostles. 
Jesus Christ being the chief coiner-stone; 
and figuratively it may represerit the faithful 
mid true mitlieters of Jesus Christ; the seine 
as the twenty•lbur courses of the priesthood 
muter the Jewish t•Cuttitilly. S.'t. 1 Chron. 
21; 7-19. And the four hts are typified 
by the four grand die !limn ml the Jewish 
camp under Abe... The first. on the rout, 
wax I,, eillew the standard of ritdtit.; !hitt no 
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Atid the 'first Ineisr 
under cerinalersition wits 'like a him, and the 
bectsed West like a calf, and the third bens( 
hail a face 10 a titan. and the fourth beast 
was like a flying eagle.' These represent 
the four grand dive:ieiis or tia.giiiyel church. 
'lb,, hit represents the clench in the toies• 
ttthc tige, when the church went forth, bold 
so a lieu, preaching said preelaining the 
',el memos till withine. The second state or 
division uf the church wits the times of lwr. 
necutien and slaughter by the Roman t 
tors, lepiesented Ily the calf. 'flue third state 
of the church was in Constuntine's dity, 
when the church enjoyed privileges ns n inan, 
and became independent, and like ti tatural 
mint, proud, avaricious, and worldly. The 
fourth and last state of trial was when the 
anti Christian beast arose; and, under the 
set �
of this abomination, the church 
having two wings given her, like the wings 
of an eagle, she flew into the wilderness, 
where, a place being prepared fur her, she 
in nourished from the Inca of the s Tent a 
thousand two hundred and threescoad days, 
Rev. 12: 0, 14. 
This of course would include the whole 
Christian church until Christ's second coin-
ing, when anti Christ will be destroyed, and 
the church delivered from all her foes, and 
brought into her New Jerusalem state, where 
John note sees in his vision the whole7family 
of the redeemed, singing the grand .'shorus 
as in the verses following our text. ',And 
beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels 
round shout the throne, and the beasts, and 
the elders; and the cumher of them was ten 
thousand times ten thousand and thousands of 
thousands.' In this vision John has the same 
view which Daniel had in his vision. See 
Daniel 7: 10. Daniel saw the same throne, 
and the same numbers stood before it; which 
proves, almost beyond a doubt, that Daniel's 
vision carries us into the eternal, immortal, 
and glorified state; for John, in the next 
verses, carries us into the eternal state of the 
righteous. 
12th verse, 'Saying with a loud voice, 
Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive 
power, and riches, and wisdpm, and strength, 
and honor, and glory, anti blessing. And 
every creature which is in heaven, and on 
the earth, and under the earth, and such as 
are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard 
saying. Blessing, arid honor, and glory, 
and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the 
throne, and unto the Lamb forever and ever. 
Pied the four beasts said, Amen. And the 
four and twenty elders fell down and wor-
shipped him that liveth forever and ever.' 
Nothing can be more evident than that John 
here saw the whole family of the redeemed, 
as they will be after the first resurrection; 
for he gives the several situations of every 
part of the a hole family as they actually 
were, that is, in body, or the situation of 
their bodies at that vet), 
 (line when he was 
writing; 'every creature,' that is, in person, 
in their bodice. as they will be after the 
resurrection; not all mai:kind as some vainly 
suppose, but those who are iedeemed, or who 
may hereafter be redeemed. 'out of every 
kindred and tongue, and people, and nation.' 
See our text. If it had been 'all nations,' 
&c , he would not linty said, 'out of,' &e. 
Therefore we must take the whole in coe-
nection. But Jelin saw every creature whose 
bodies then weie steno of them in heaven. as 
Enoch and El jilt; every creature whit was 
then alive on the earth liku !Muster and breth-
ren; every body tif the saints ilea hail slept 
end been buried under ground, or in the son, 
and till the saints whoa were yet ill the loins of 
their ththern. In one word, he sew the whole 
gene mob tissentlily and chute!' oldie first•I orn. 
whom names were writkil ill the �terek 
of ffli,, These four beasts lieu the same 
living creatures which Isniali saw when 110 
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saw nisi the God sitting upon it threw., high 
and butt lip, rued ins train fill, �
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Abort: it steed the serephim-; shalt laid six 
wings: with t esiti he celesta d les face, and 
wet, 'wine he (severed hits ,tie, reel with twain 
he dal his. And ono cried unte smelter. marl 
said, Dole, holy. Indy la the Lord 1/1. 1100,11 
11111 al ten VIII ill in fella 104 �EZeklel 
din law the aitts hvinug creatures that Isaiah 
calls •aeraptims,' and John 'ittit ii nsfv.' 
Ells kid calls them .ulittrithiins.' See Fzek. 
1st mid 10th chapters. Joint says, Rev. 4: 8, 
m\ imml the four beasts had each of thent atx 
wings Maim him,' this same hun Isainh's stirs. 
phiitis.' These wings are the graces of the 
Spirit, its is strongly implied by Ezekiel I: 
12, .And they went every one straight for-
ward; a hither the Spirit wits to go, they went; 
and they turned not when they went,' 'With 
two they covered their face'—humility and 
repentance; 'with two they covered their 
lEee—tlint is, they walked by two of the 
graces, faith and patience, faith in God and 
patient in tribulation; .01)(1 with two they did 
ily'—hope and love. They 'mount up with 
wings as eagles; they shall run and not be 
weary, walk and not faint,' says the prophet 
Isaiah, 11: 12. And again, Joha says, they 
were .full of eyes before and behind, and 
they were full of eyes within;' showing that 
they would have just views of sin, of God, 
and bin word, and of themselves: they could 
look back and see their sins, and the pit 
from which they had been delivered, antEwith 
gratitude remember their Redeemer. They 
could with eyes of faith look forward and 
believe in (ho promises of God, and have a 
view of the glory that 'shall be revealed at 
his second coming. With eyes within, they 
could look who their own hearts, and see the 
remaining corruption and hidden depravity 
that lie lurking in every corner of the soul, 
see' by this means put off the old man with 
his deeds. They are represented by John as 
being praying souls, 'and gulden vials full of 
odors, which are the prayers of saints.' 
Every one had these vials, says John. Dow 
then, I ask, can the prayerless man or wo-
maa think to join this celestial throng? 
.1-laving every one of there harps;' showing 
that all of them would have new ?watts, be 
born of God; so they would be enabled to 
sing in the New Jerusalem state the new song. 
These are the characters and persons 
which John saw represented by the four and 
twenty elders and the four beasts. I shall 
now, 
2. Show what we may understand by the 
new song, and the occasion of it. 
The prophet John had been led by the angel 
through seven direrent stages of the church, 
by the vision of the mystery of the seven 
stars and seven golden candlesticks, under 
the name of the seven churches of Asia. 
which ought to be understood symbolically 
down to the time when the Judge stands at 
the door, ready to enter in to the supper of 
the great God, when nil wicked flesh will be 
destroyed. and till the marline supper of the 
Lamb arrives. when all the righteous will be 
raised, enter into the glorified state, and live 
and reign with him on earth. Then it is per-
fectly walnut that after we had read the 
history or the church through all her trials. 
persecutions, and imperfections, we should 
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lid to see her deliverance on the other 
side of the banks of Jordnn, or beyond tie 
power of death, and to hear a part, at least, 
of OM new song which on men can sing 
unless he is redeemed front the earth. 
In the second end third chnpters of Reve. 
lation, we have the history of the church, as 
I hove endeavored to show ti sly lretries 011 
the churches. �
In the fourth and fifth chin;,' 
tees WO hit Yu it view or the glorified Snit,/ 111/11 
'he characters given or these who will enjoy 
the privilege of that state, the song which wtl 
einpley the golden harps, utnud the place where. 
The chieriteters I hive already given. The 
snug is represented as a new sung. It is new, 
heconsto it is sung rimy in that state where 
till things are muds new. See 2 Net. 3: 13, 
Neveithelest we, according to his Hondse. 
Ink fir a new heavens and it new earth, 
wherein dwidleti; righteousness.' Rev. 21: 
i. 'Aitulhe that sat upon the throne mill, 
Ilehold, 1 /Mike all things new,' New John 
saw, in Rev. 4: 2, the /101/10 throne, and him 
that sst upon it, and in the verse above quitted 
lie speaks its thoogli Int hail mentioned liefore 
!hut sat upon the throne.' And as his 
has not MI. n beeel him in this language in 
any other place, we only Imre strong reason 
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the ilium in the 4111 chapter of Revelation as 
at ilia 21st ehopter. Again, we ore es pressly 
told thai nu man cold learn the new sang, 
but those who nru redeemed from the earth, 
Rev. 14: 3. And redempbon from tne earth 
is no where spoken of until the resurrection 
of the body. Christ saps, iii Luke 21: 27. 
est, .And then shall they vein the Son of matt 
corning in a cloud, with power and great 
glory. And a hell these things le;gin to COMO 
to puss, then look up. and hill up guile heads, 
for your redemption draweth nigit.' Anil 
Paul says, Rom. 3: 23, 'Even we ourselves 
groan within ourselves, seeking for the adop-
tion, to wit, the redemption ef our bOltiVa.' 
In this state they cull sing, 'For theu wits: 
slain, and hest redeemed us to God hy thy 
blood, out of every kindred, and tongue, and 
people. and nation.' It is also a holy song; 
for they cry, 'and rest not day and night, 
saying, Flory, holy, holy Lord tied Almighty, 
which was, and is, and is to come.' The 
church in this state are not till holy; thee 
have but a faint view or he holiness; of Gods__ 
character, his law or government; neither 
could they endure the sight: for when Gott 
has seen fit to reveal a small part of hie 
holiness, men have fainted under it. Isaiah-
cried nut. 'Wo is me.' Ezekiel fell upon his 
Ince, Ezek. 1: 28. Daniel's comeliness wan 
turned into corruption, so that he retained re 
strength, Dan. 10: 8. Therefore it is evident 
that this holy song can city h, sung in a 
state of inittont, lity, %alien tie shall be heir. 
even as God us holy. '1 his new and holy 
song will not erase, for they rest net day and 
night, which proves it to be in the eternsl 
state. And the dress and crowns of the 
elders—'clothed in white raiment,' and they 
had on their heads 'crowns of gold,' and they 
'cast their crowns before the throne, saying, 
Thou art worthy, 0 Lord, to receive glory, 
and honor, and power.'—all prove that the 
new song is sung after the second corning of 
our Lord Jesus Christ; for Paul tells us, that 
a crown is laid up for hint which the righteous 
Judge shall give him at thou day; and not 
only him, but to n11 them also that love hie 
appearing. So neither the elders nor the 
beasts can sing this new song until the New 
Jerusalem is formed, their bodies redeemed 
from the earth, and they brought into the 
eternal slate of the righteous. It will not be 
sung until the hest child is born into the king-
dom—the last enemy conqtrered— the elect 
gathered from the four winds of heaven, and 
the cap-stone brought forth, when the heavens 
will ring with this general chorus. •Iloly, 
holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty: bless. 
ing, and honor, and glory, and power, be 
unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and 
unto the ',nib forever end ever; and the 
four beasts will say, Amen.' 
3. I shall now show the reign spoken of in 
our text, and the place where. 
There is much speculation at the prevent 
day on the reign of Christ on the earth, which 
is promised in his word, and in the text. 
Some have supposed that it would be purely 
spiritual, by the Doty Spirit's influence, whet) 
all, or a large share of mankind who then 
should be on the earth, would be regenerated 
and become the subjects of les spiritual king-
dom; that there weekl be no tempting devil 
to deceive, nor any kingdoms on the earth, 
hut what would be subject to Christ's epiritua I 
reign, and din church would enjoy a long 
Sabbath of rest; and rho long desired period 
of some who profess to be the servants et' 
Christ would come; when church ant tante 
would he united. and war would cease ta 11v, 
end of the world, nod the world would in-
creitso in riches, arts, ntel melees.%) In an 
unitizing degree, beyond anything we have 
yet conceived; thousands would inhabit the 
enrth where there aro but ten, now, nn.1 ins it 
would liv., to a good old age, and with)ss ti 
horn in n day. This theory is the most ra 
tional one I have hetet able fi/ 
from the glorious reign or Christ with hit 
pen ilk in �
StU in or toonorttoity. 
To the awe, theery 1 have tnatly scriptural 
elijections. Although the nilyeentes of tide 
theory cell it spirituel, yet a large elinre, 
not ell, aro temporal blessings; of this king-
dom. and um xacily the flame that the Jews 
befieVeil I hey should possess at Christ's 11 mit 
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he true, that the ruler. of the world must all 
be Christie., um p• efessedly 10. Than whist 
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inuet wu say to Christ's werds, 'My kingdom 
ii not of Ibis world?' and again. .1st the 
world ye shall have tribulittienV The world 
hate you, and if )0 IMO godly, yn .4,01 eta, 
persecution; and these (intuiting the wank. 
family of the redeemed) Ilium come nut of 
much tribulation. 
Ilow could those million., 
Who taro barn or litl, in this lumpy period, 
come out of great triletlationt But where do 
1 the inlet...mete of the abutu system prove their 
doctrine? S �
r pretend to bring the snore 
passages in the Old Testament diet the Jews 
did, to prove their temporel kingdom over 
the Gentiles, and do not see Hint muck of the 
I lid Testament prophecy woe, and has !teen 
fulfilled in its typical wise. And it is very 
easy to show that the passages they pretend 
to bring is the Old Testament were ull NI-
tilled 1600 years ngn. 
lint, if they had believed in this theory, 
would net some of the New Testament writets 
have mentiteiml this important period? I 
temember, when 1 was but a child, of hearing 
tin old minister of the gospel make a remark 
like this: .All the Old Testament prophecies,' 
said lie, .which were not fulfilled when Christ 
came in the flesh, are carried into the New 
Testament, told further explained.' I then 
thought there was reason sad propriety in 
the remark; I think so still, fur the two wit-
nesses must and will epee. And where do 
the believers in this system bring us one word 
from Christ? Not one. But we can show 
touch to the contrary. The patabhe of the 
tares and the wheat carries us to the end of 
the world; and lie expressly says. •Let them 
grow together until the harvest.' Ilia prophe-
cy and parables in Matt. 24th and 25th, give 
us a prophecy until his second coming, and 
not a word about a happy period previously, 
but much about go bores,' and 'lo theres,' 
and wicked servants beating and bruising 
their fellow-servants, and eating and drinking 
with the drunken, saying in their hearts, My 
Lord, delayeth his coming. Can this be a 
tnillenniunii No. Too much devil in such 
.conduct as this. Where does Paul, a very 
prominent writer, give.us a hint of these im-
portant things? Ho must have understood 
the Old Testament us well as some, if not all, 
of our modern divines. But lie, too, has 
given the reverse. In his epistle to the 
Thessalonians. lie tells us plainly, 'Then shall 
that wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall 
consume with the spirit of his mouth, and 
destroy by the brightness of his coming,' 2 
These. 2. In his 2 These. 1, he tells them 
of the necessity of patience end faith in all 
their persecutions and tribulations; which, 
he says, is a manifest token of the righteous 
judgment of God; and then goes on to show 
Christ's corning. and destruction of an un-
godly world: nothing that looks like a mil-
lennium in this, or any part of Paul's wri-
tings, before Christ's second coming. Where, 
then, shall we find it in the New Testament? 
Perhaps they may say, in Rev. 20, taut this 
chapter can never be given to them until they 
do away the first resurrection; for all in that 
chapter is after the first resurrection, and, of 
course, is after the personal and second 
coming of the Saviour; and all the arguments 
to do away or destroy the word resurrection 
tire so futile and weak that it needs no argu-
ment to refute them; for what could do it in 
that place might in every other case, and we 
should be Sadducees at once. Jansen, Peter 
and Jude mention the lust days in their epis-
tles, and describe them as being very wicked, 
yet make no mention of a day or the spread 
of the gospel in this wonderful minner. 
James speaks of their heaping up treasures, 
for the last days. "Behold. the hire of the 
laborers who have reaped down your fields, 
which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth; 
end the cries of them which have reaped are 
entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabitoth. 
Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and 
been wanton: ye have nourished your hearts 
its in a day of elatighter. Ye have condemn-
ed and killed the juet; and ho loth not resist 
yon. Ile patient, therefore, brethren, unto 
the coining of the Lord; for the coming of the 
Lord thawed' nighs," Can this he the mille• 
niumt Ne! unless putrid, earthly pleasure, 
-wantonness, and murder, are the spirit of the 
millennium. �
Yet, if it is temporal. this 
would lie the most likely fruit,, if we judge of 
olio future by the print; for the grimier the 
temporal blessings, Ibe greener is titan's re. 
twitter). Read the second mad third chapters 
of 2, Peter, wlime he expressly speaks riffle, 
last (Nye. �
"iittiowitig, this first. (lust there 
shall ciente. in the lust days, scoffers, walking 
victor their oWit lasts, stet riming, Whets is 
the promise of his coming!" Ars, ngreeing 
with whet (Insist said the wicked ministers 
would be tieing when lin it �
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would say iii their hearts, My Lord deloyeth whole earth shall he be caned, ' 
her into the New Jerusalem state, pre lei real tor 1 to Y"u• �
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his attention.. Hie neighbore, e litmus exts•p. 
1. Then I am to prove that it tt ill be lm-
mortal after the resurrectien. 
The preaent reign is milled, in Scripture, n 
reign of grace; "So might glace reign through 
righteousness onto eternal life, by Jesus 
Christ our Lord." This reign has been ever 
since Christ was in the world, for 1800 years 
past. We shall now show that 'hie reign 
must continue until after the resurrection of 
the dead. Bee 1 0111%15: 23-26; "But every 
man in his own order; Christ the first fruits, 
(resurrection;) afterward, they that are 
Christ's rat his coming. Then commit the 
end, when lie shall have given up the king-
dom to God, even the Father; when he shall 
put down all rule, and nil authority and power. 
For he must feign till he Lath put down all 
rule, and all authority and power. For he 
must reign till he Intel put all enemies under 
his feet. The last enemy that shell be de-
stroyed is death," Ilere we have plain 
Scripture that the same reign of grace must 
continue unto eternal life; and in the other 
text, until the resurrection of them that are 
Christ's, and death, the last enemy to the 
church, is destroyed. Where, then, shall we 
get in a spiritual or tt temporal reign? We 
see evidently there is nu change of the reign 
of Christ in the gospel, or grace, from the 
apostles' days until the time comes when the 
saints shall possess the kingdom in the im-
mortal state. Paul says, Rom. 5: 17, "For 
if by one man's offence death reigned by one, 
much more they which receive abundance of 
grace and of the gift of righteousness, shall 
reign in life by one, Jesus Chariot." Here 
the saints are promised to reign after the gift 
of righteousness, (which the righteous Judge 
shall give all those who love his nppearing at 
that day,) in life, that is, eternal life.. �
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21st verse. 1 Peter 5: 4, .And when the 
chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive 
a crown of glory that fadeth not away.' 
This must, of course, be in the immortal state, 
fur it fadeth not away. 
2. That Christ will be present with his 
people in a state of immortality, can hardly 
be doubted when rte read ouch texts as thew: 
John 12: 24, 'If any man serve me, let kiln 
follow me; and where I am, there also shall 
my servant be.' Again, John 14: 3, 'And 
if I go and prepare a place for you, I trill 
come again and receive you to myself; list 
where I am there ye may be also." So much 
for Christ's promise to his disciples. And 
now let us. read his prayer to his Father on 
this point, John 17: 24, "Father. I will that 
they also, whom thou hast given me, be with 
me where i am, that they may behold my glo 
ry." Paul says, 1 Thess. 4: 17, "And so 
shill we ever be with the Lord." 
"For it loth not yet appear what we shall 
be; but we know that when he shall appear, 
we shall be like him; for we shall ace him as 
he is." Our text says, "And haste made us 
unto our God kings and priests." Rev. 20: 
4. 0, "And they lived and reigned with 
Christ." "And shall reign with hint." 21: 
3, "And I heard a great voice out of heaven, 
saying; Beheld, the tabernacle of God is with 
men, and lie will dwell with theta, and they 
shall be his people, and God himself shall be 
with them. and be their God." 
3. "And we shall reign on the earth," 
says our teat. Nut under its present dispel, 
station, but after it in cleansed by fire; after 
the wicked are destroyed by fire, its the eine-
diluvians writ• by water; eft, the Te.inree.. 
lion of the salute, and when Christ's prayer. 
taught to his disciples, shall be 'meowed. 
Thy mill be done an rarth errs us in /,,area." 
When the bride line made herself reads, mid 
married to the bridegroom, he will then ;nave ioniel ti. 
 hen all these (hags :dial be elided iin• 
Anti thiqt, my dear beer, r, if pm �
ve 
lind pew hunt t broken oil' (Now sin; if you 
hove by faith ht,1,11 oohed 111 spirit to the 
Limb of God; if yarn bate patiently maimed 
their own sentiments Ly tine word. 'I here; I i �nit.1 perriceirlion lire line nr'au - 
a �
s. 
nrn many snare brunchea of the plow es stem, dem you will live mud reign with him on Ow 
but none that I have ivrn but tare liable �
until', and !hie earth will Lo te.guiturieeti lit 
the anitio ohinclioll. �
I 14111111 110W 1111111,1141.1, 1411 fire nud Ihn Imam' r of led, the curee dee; no rel. 
prove flint this reign is in the iintliertel elate, sus. pejo, myth* sorrow, and death banished 
after the resurreetiou; that Chi ist will be pre:, i rum, the world, null tneriallity clothed upon 
eta with Iris people, wad arf coerse, pert:moil-, by iimettreility, death ,wallowed up in vie,u 
ly; and that it will be on the mirth. �ry. You Will rise rap in their general Itsto.lit- 
hly, and clopping your halide with sets cry. 
"Holy, holy, holy is the Lard (lid Almighty, 
which was, mud no, and ie" now corn,. 
Then 
you will be in a eitustion tit yen the grand 
chorus, rind sing the new song. saying. 
"Thou art worthy, fur thou wrist slain, mid 
hurt redeemed us to God by thy blood. out of 
every kindred, and tongue, mid people. and 
nation and, host made us unto our God kings 
and priests, and we shall reign on tlin earth;" 
saying. with it loud voice, "Worthy is the 
Lamb that was slain to receive putter, and 
riches, and wisdom, slid strength, nod honor, 
and glory, and Idessing." And All who meet 
in t hat grand assembly will be then heard to 
shout, ..111essing, rind honor, and glory, nod 
power be unto inn !lint silted) upon the throne 
and unto the Lomb forever and ever." And 
methinks I can now see every one who loves 
our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in this Ile-
scrobly rising upon their feet, mid in one 
united prayer of faith, crying, "Come, Lord 
Jesus, 0 come quickly." 
But you, 0 impenitent man or woman. 
where will you be then? 1Vhen heaven shell 
resound with the mighty song, and distant 
realms shall echo back the sound, where, tell 
me, where will you be then/ In hell! 0 
think! 
In hell! to dreadful word! Once 
more think! In hell! lifting up your eyes, 
being in torment. Stop, sinner; think! In 
hell! where shall be weeping, wailing, and 
gnashing of teeth. Stop, sinner, stop; con. 
cider on your latter end. In hell! "where 
time beast and false prophet are, and shall be 
tormented day end night forever and ever." 
I entreat you tc think—on hell! 1 know you 
hate to hear the word. It sounds too harsh. 
There is no music in it. You say • it grates 
upon the ear. ilut think, when it grates up-
on the soul, the conscience, and the ear, and 
not by sound only, but a dread reality, when 
there can be no respite, no cessation, no de-
liverance, no hope! You will then think, yes 
of 11 is warning, of a thousand others, perhaps 
of this hour, with many more that are lost; 
yes, worse than lost, that have been squander-
ed in earthly, vain, and transitory tnirth, 
I have been abused; for there have been many 
hours the Spirit strove with you, and you 
prayed to be excused. There was an hour 
when conscience spoke; but you stopped your 
ears rind would not hear. There was a time 
when jqdgtnent and reason whispered: but 
you soon drowned their cry by calling in 
some aid against your own soul. TO judg-
ment and reason you have opposed will and 
wit, and said, "in hell was ouly in the grave." 
In this vain citadel, on this frail house of 
sand, you will build, until the last seal is bro-
ken, the last trump will sound, the last too 
be pronounced, and the last vial be poured up-
on the earth. Then, impenitent man or wo-
man, you will awake in everlasting too! 
Be warned; repent ; fly, fly for succor to 
the ark of God, to Jesue Christ, the Lamb 
that once was slain, that you might live; for 
he is worthy to receive all honor. power, rind 
glory. Believe, and you shall live; obey his 
word, his Spirit, his calls, his invitations; 
there is no time for delay; put it nut off, 1 beg 
of you; no, not for a moment. Do you want 
to j tin that benvenly choir and sing the new i 
ming? 'l'ie'n come in God'a nppointed way; 
rorment. Do you want a house not made 
with hands eternal in the henvene? Then 
pill; in heart and soul this happy people, 
whoee God is the Lord. Dir you aunt nit in-
serest i3 tho New Jerusalem, the beloved ei-
vit.., set your face as It flint Zuni sward; 
Itecome n pilgiiin in the good old w:ny. "Seek 
fleet the kingdom 14 heaven," Nuys Christ, 
his coming. Can there Ito this Imp, time 
ileerribtel in the above theoryl All moot till. 
ewer No. Then let this startes as answer to 
the tibove theory, until our opponents prove 
said ;list .lee hail seen her prust prelim. a miracle, by 
eliangiag li•ef into li,11. $1.e si.tnitted that 11 01.11 
loult,i1 like �
and that • lien :die on.ted it, it tasted 
like beef. but then it haunt hove l...en 11.11, beeeivie Ole 
priest had limit.' it into fish, end bail declared it 
Ito testis Post. Mahan might c,pitoltml doe Prripottep 
very ,..iloactorily, le ale Nilo would pare such a rem 
Blanca ii his 111.:4•FilltSS. 
1111i where is Oro pivot that lire testilscian 4/1 all 
things, mentioned by reIrr, is the 'awe t.sey sin. the 
relmmation nirtil•micil by Paull 
The 1.1rek word. apc1ahariaris, Utast in Arts': di, 
be thus �
in ilulitit..rin's Les 11,011, ••The f(S10111. 
'dn) 'hir‘g to ifs fernier state." The Greek 
The 14,5Iva:on. 
The Restitution rf. oll things which God Lath troll-rt 
hy the mouth if all Ms holy prep/arts mince the world 
Organ. 
Acts 3:19-21. "Repent ye therefi.re and be con-
verted, that your rine nay be Wetted out, when the 
times of refreshi ig shall come from the presence of 
the Lord: And He shall send Jesus Christ, who beers 
was preached unto you: strain the heaven must le-
erier, until the times or restitution of all thing., 
which Cud bath spoken by the mouth of all the truly 
prophels, since the world began." 
President Mahan 01 Oberlin preached at Cleveland 
on .he subject or the temporal millennium on the 1511; 
of Oct. 18t3. In the course or tee remarks lie in. 
formed us that the passage of scripture quoted these, 
was a key to unlock the prophetic ser7pturts. This 
position we admit. But, strange to tell, Pres. Mahan, 
at he thinks, in using this key, unlrelca to himself and 
others the glories of a temporal millennium, while 
many of God's people, who have diligently studied 
the Bible, can find, in the use of this key, no eusb 
thing, but a state of things inconceivably inure glo-
rious and enduring than the advocates of a temporal 
millennium ssein ever to have conceived. 
In pursuing the subject before me, 1 will, 
1. Notice the course which the ['resident pursues 
in order to make this key unlock to him a temporal 
mirennium. 
2, I will show that the course which the President 
pursues is unscriptural and wrong. 
3. I will show what is the restitution of all thinr, 
which is to take place when God shall send Jeans 
Christ. 
1. I am to speak of the course which the President 
pursues, in order to make this key unlock to Winn 
temporal millennium: 
He quotes a passage found in the Oth chap. of 
Hebrews, at the 10th verse. "Which stood only in 
meats and drinks and divers washing., and carnal 
ordinance., imposed on them until the time of rem, 
motion." 
He informs its that !hie time of reformation 
commenced when Christ abolished the Jewish ritual 
and took it out of the way by nailing it to the mows. 
He then tells us that the time or reformation, 
spoken of by Paul to the Hebrews, is the smile thing 
with "the limes of restitution of all things, which, 
God balk spoken by the mouth of all the holy proph-
ets eine° the world began," as mentioned by Peter la 
Acts 3:21. 
The President still finds that the key wilt not It 
air theory, and lie therelide tells us that the Greek, 
word, translated mad, should bane bees translated 
during, and then mad, as follows: ti•Whont the 
heavens mast receive dining the times of restaution. 
ur reformation, of all things," ate,, 
Hence. according to the President. the times of 
restitution commenced at the cross, and will combine 
until every thing written is the mph,na is lu filled; 
and that during ill these times of restitution, Christ 
to remain in the heaves, and will then mine to 
judge and tlestloy the world. 
2. 1 am to oliow that the course permed by the 
President is erneriptural and stung. 
1. The �has no eulhority from scripture. 
for van ilia that "the time. al ',filiation of all thing."' 
rotten of by Leger is like stone with .the time of 
relnoilltion" spoken tit by Paid. It is a mete nese, 
ion without proof. Tlrmrld we believe him. we might 
.1 well take ...stand is Olt the Catholie wanness who 
inn, g to him the chummier of nn �
men. 
rim was unveiling nit lour and alone; and it 
ens vety Irate tit night, so lot could call no 
�
 to witness It " 
%Ve think it hardly pussildn dint this entail 
lei the same which won seen near Cineinniiii, 
but We publish it nv nnother, lidded to OM 
11.11.41.1hr of testi lllll flirt; �r, 
(lint there nre osigee" in ..the heaven'," r. see 
toe ry part of the Intel. Bra. Johnson enn.- 
t•litilee by enyine: �the Lord. the see. 
pint's reign is tilinno r ter, nud our GUM 
�
in about In hike to �Iris great power 
land reign."—Mid. (,'art. 
ITIIF' 
 SECON 
AnvENT 
(11111S7'. 
CLEVELAND. OCT. '2%1, 1843. 
went, itierthosis, lime in Hebrew.' 9: 10, is I rans'atril Then when Goa Omit ',rot ie.,. elitist at the 
by the mite author; �
nil...lien. 
It is hue dim Itobinenn, In emtunteeting to lllll this, 
say*, that it means the reign of Christ; but Hollins 
on's assert �
 is uu better prod Ilion ries. Mohan', 
All Om .h.rnosis means, as the Pres. at tenet ottelit 
In know, ie, esiondatiett or rellirotittion; while ups. 
tomstasis rlo s mean the realoralitm �
unvtltieg to its 
former elate. Where is Ilia proof that three two 
words, eroeoteetireis, and dierelesis, 'mean the clime 
thine? 11'iteu I bPliree it, I will believe on the testi• 
...my of a Catholic priest, that beef is fide and that 
In tier anee of all the evidetuee of pity sense.. The 
woe's have no eflinity. 
Moreover, where is the President's euthorify for 
/eying that the Greek word, aeri, tratieleted 
hhou'd ha • e been Ira n .lat ed during! 
The Greek word akri, with its equivalent, tnetri, I 
have found in the Greek testement from ilurty•five to 
forty limes. In none of these buttoner. is it trans. 
kited &Ling. There area few inetaitces in which, 
obviously, it might hove Leen so translated, without 
tdiering the force or the passage. Tire devil haring 
finished' his temptation. departed from Chriet, (akri 
tem of nil thine., everything. contained io the pimple 
�
et. mit pre% iettoly �
,nail nano to pass. 1 shell 
now intr...111., a very few pee:01mi or ,torture o. 
how what lltin^s the prophet. soy ',toot he retered 
to their 'looter Heim. 
My "eject in .imply to Ittritiell a clue to what the 
holy prophet, sar IOWA rn fie. 
I. 'rho kh•iiik...ge of Coil is to Le r..e,t 
Ise. II: 9, "e'er the earth ,hint h tall of the knowl-
edge of the Lond as the rioter, rover the tea." 
J..r. 
:II: 
 
it, "For they shall all know me teeth the Lord.' 
Immortality ie ho be restored. 
�
loa. e: el, "Ile �
allow op death in vietory." 
Is.. Vat Ill, "Thy dead men ellen live, together with 
my 11,4 holy filial they rise." 
Ilithrti es will be ,'stored. 
iota. 35: 8, "And an high way shall be there, and a 
way, and it shall be called the way or holineee. the 
unclean dial' not yes. over It." loa. afl, 21, "'fire 
people also shel he all righteous. they obeli inherit the 
land nacres, the brunet, of toe elantieg, the work of 
my hand. that I may be eurilied. 
Eden will be restored. 
rem. �
 
et the devil; hear.: Chri,t buys on Mall. 1:1; .1ri, "The 
totes are the elidereat of the wicked one, and the ene• 
cry that pawed them is the devil." Awl again in haul 
8; 41, "Ye are of your rather Om devil, and the bode 
of your lather ye will do." Also by the mouth iii 
his vet vent, in I Julm 2: III, "Ill dila the children Or 
�
Col pro tuanili st, seal the Child,. Or the �
W110- 
110t righteoustmee is hot of laud; neither 
lie that loved' tint hie brother." 
The ',hove paoenges teach that not roily the wicked 
G. The kingdom till be restored to Israel. 
Ezek. 21, 27, .1 will overturn, overlie n, overturn 
it, and it Abell be roe mnre until Ile come whose right 
it ie, and I will give him." Then Cnrist will sit on 
the throne of David, in fu fitment of the oath of God 
in the 32nd Psalm, "The Lord bath sworn in truth to 
David, lie will not turn from it, of the fruit of thy 
body will I set on the throne." 
These passages are sufficient to show what things 
are to be returned to their former state in the restitu-
tion of all things; and they also show that such a res-
titution has not commenced. A relormation there has 
been, but a restitution there has not been, and will 
not be until God stall send Jesus Christ. "Repent 
ye therefore and be converted that your sins may be 
blotted out when the times of refreshing shall come 
from the presence of the Lord, and he shall Pend Jr- 
us Christ who before was preached unto you."--
Tlinee will indeed be times of refreshing when man 
shall find restored to him ell that was lost in the MI 
his "thug saith the Lord for ea doing." Ile has ere- °f the �
PrThele' and in the reet4"tinn of nil 
which he closely adheres. They are these: I. 1 he 
theory of a temporal millennium is true. 2. All 
scripture is to he no expounded as to agree with that 
Theory. To these rules Ire does adhere with great 
pertinacity. If he ran any other Jules of interprets 
lion which he does net violate and utter'y disregard 
whenever they conflict with his theory, we have not 
yet learned what they are. 
The aseertions or such men, without proof, ere juPt 
ne good a' the assertion . oe a negro clove from a lice 
....IP, without proof, and no better. If Peru. Mahan 
can have the privilege of altering the Bible to his own 
liking, he Can undoubtedly fit it to hie temporal mil-
lennium theory. But the very Owl Out Inc found it 
tnecessary to make such an unauthorized anenition of 
the towage before no, betrays hie own ,onvintion that 
it boo,' not teach anything like a temporal millennium 
as it id. He may bring all the learned names Mere 
rigen, and show, if he can, dint they have made the 
'tame ewe of the bible that he doom; but that is net 
giving one ecripturril authority. 
We ask again, 
where 4 his thus smith the Lord, 
:1, We shall now preload to show what in the re.th 
'union of all thing', and offer. in it diners from the 
reforinntien elmkett of in Ilehrewe 9: Ill. 
The reeermation, I renunk. ,,e1 �cronmence 
with the time when tea Save'', was in die world. 
Then "div ro neighing. mei carnal ordinancee," 
imposed on tnen during • preview, diem:H.6,m, were 
done away, and the ehriei inn deepen...it. introduced; 
and by wteel, • g'I/1 Ionia r..1nronsilion WOO infield 
brought 10 pass. Ito' it in Ul!o;:ellicr a graliii101Ie as. 
P.Mp11011 to say that the reetitut ion of ell 'bulge then 
rullowhevil. 
What thine were remored to their termer state 
when Glutei moriel We pa.," for a reply. 
What ileum, are to It rtAtoted to their twiner Mate peal., ye generilino or viper's how etiti ye erwepe the 
*hen tltrist appeurs the Heroin' time/ �
damnation ul hell?" Now as the itelehlt. ha, told 
(i•'""th �line on Aral the olil serpent Is tile devil, anion and analogy 
"." (If .1/ the 4"IY P./At:4 �
begun.- would leach that the offspring would be the children 
among the Jetve, but an that duel It not rigliteouenea. I �
Tell'Perei �
edeeileinle ae retrera'i• 
are the cheer,. of the eine, and eneeneteittly the lee? 
in the Veiled States during le42 there were 
presented, and then behold the character of the wicked op., him copy of the first No. at, the t.edoit Ad. 
around him, and not discover the identity? I cannot. vent, containing the Rennet' "The Restoration of the 
11. �
irlot, ore the deed ef fia fe0111/177? 
Let the bible �
eve bave none, Will some 
answer. The text Itself declares filet the seed of the lrind, who lute one,forward it? 
woman shall braise the serpent'. heal, Now as the 
�
eerpent in celled the devil in Rev. 20: 2, by corsulting �
For the Second Advent. 
�
other peonage,' we me at no lose in determining who �
Dear Bro. Fitch-The following signs were Peen in 
the seed or the woman is. Jn Romone la: 20, the Hudson a short time since. Should you think then 
extending from the sonthweet to the northeast, thro' 
the zenith, some two rode wide, distinctly marked, ant 
shell destroy Mtn that has the power of death, that Is perfectly straight. They speak of it as being white 
the devil; and as John informs us that it was the Son as wool, and strikingly grand. It continued about 
of God that was manifested to destroy the works of threedburtlis of an hour, and then faded away. It 
tire devil; is it not an clear as demonstration can make was oleo seen ha do adjoining low',. 
it that Christ in the reed of the woman,-nod is it not �
DENRY HUDSON, 
equally as clear that he le the angel that John nave 
bind Satan? Oaht then being the seed of the women, 
and all the wicked being the weed of the serpent, be-
tween whom the enmity exists, it may he proper to 
enquire 
!II. llow, and when, this enmi,y m M cease. lt may 
give us eoine light on this point to consider the ground 
on which this enmity existe. On this point I remark 
that it must arise on the one bond from God's utter 
disapprobation of sin, and Lis love of holiness; and on 
the other hand, from their utter disapprobation of 
holiness, awl their love of sin. It follows therefore. 
that this enmity will not cease co long ae there is one 
being no raise his opposition to holiness. The way 
then t:, by the conversion or the wicked to Chriet, eo 
as to harmon'ze with all of the great principles that 
govern Christ; but as mediation and probation are 
parallel, and en Christ will not leave his mediatorial 
seat, until probation ends, nit which time he in to come 
in the clouds of heavrn, in flaming, 
 fire taking ven-
geance on those that know not God and obey not the 
who 61411 be punished with everlasting des-
teem on, it follows that the enmity will finally cease 
only by the destruction of the wicked. 
"But hole," Faye the advocate of a temporal mil-
leniutn, "the wicked are all lo be converted, and holi• 
newt pervade the enrdi for one thousand year* before , 
Chtiat comet', .d of csuree there will be no enmity 
existing teen." But is not Christ.. find winked men 
ns 
on the earth when he routes! Ah yes, for Satan 
to deceive them egain after the thouaand years are 
fulfilled. Deceive who? Why those that mare lived 
through the millenium of cutirse. But atop, the Bible 
leeches no such thing; that deelaree that he shall de-
ceive the, nations no more till the thouttand years are 
expired. Who are the nations thnt he is deceiving at 
the commencement of the thousaild years, after which 
time he it to deceive apart on tee word "tie" plainly 
',uplift? Why, acrottline to the theory of the tem 
pond millettiom, it is Ilte righteous Who line at the 
expiration or the thousatte yea. upon whom lie is to 
preetioe hi. deceptions; mid therefore it in the right-
er,n nut lone that Satan is deceiving al the commence• 
merit or the thousand years, foe the pas..age plainly 
Ieleher that they were the mine that .hould be de- ; 
ceined at the expiration of that time, for he ',Imola 
"'leerier slain PO revere �
Ilse Iltrimmul year. abould 
be tulfil!ed." Then In aolnrit the dimity al' the tempo- 
rah millenium is lo �
mie al the grossest 1,b0iadj- 
lih0 under bent., lire that makes the righteous to ha Theo, (1 wrefelteil mortals, 
 look op end espy 
the (we upon 'WhOill Sett. prattle+, 1:1. �
•rhe p minus Red-enter &vireo.' Irom the cloy, ' 
wheelis-perfectly alr.urd, mud eipafrielills the pilule: I ht *that tot or hre Irl Ihe earl r he Is Inland, 
.1 'Intl; tl man be ,hotrii I hat the eighteen. live nee, WWI a giutril of bright .aces nIIending atonal. 
the �
ceplintie or Malan, I most coin. In �
"tome hart., ye Callon, your sentence Ireri0o, 
!Moat coniiinsion that .11 ia the wi kid haliota that No �
e •11.11 my •pirit now etrive and Is alieVild. 
be It 110,1111111.1 al Ihefoistweitertitelil. and wine mtill lui My J.1.11111.1 10 113111. and rev �
e ie jttsl, 
Come hither, yr WV00.41; but ,1•Teil all ye ,oriust„.. 
deceived at the celerities' of the done mel years, alter 
which they are to ba "at, llllll by tutu from God." - 
The enmity Ili,. ceneee, find by the conversion of tl.r 
bred to Clifton and isillitnately by an destined.' of all 
who du not bee. lllll • converted peel.s to the vomiting 
of Chrint, at which lime all such will he destroyed 
front off the nice of the earth, and peace and liairtiony 
pervade the entire world. 
Tome., in the bleeoeil hope in '43, 
LYMAN GILPIN. 
ing. 'Po Zacharias: "Thou ellen be dumb and not �
olio himself likewise took part of the same, that thro' 
able to speak, until (akri) the duty that these things �
death he might destroy him that hai the power of 
are fu fulled." "Of all that Jesus began both to do �
death, that is, the �Again 1 John 3: 8, "For 
shall ex.te up the fir tree, end insletel of the briar 
eotne op the myrtle tree, and it shall be to the 
Lord for a name, for an everlasting, 
 sign which shall 
not be cut olle" 
5. The brute creation shell be ',stored to the:r orig. 
rant sta.. 
II: (I, "flue wolf also shoe dwell with the 
lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, the 
outland the young lion and the feeling together. The 
cow and the bear shall feed, their young ones Isbell 
lie down together, and the lion shall eat strawlike the 
els since the world began" must be restored when 
God shall send Jesus, whom the heaven. must 
until them limes of restitution Mall come. Thanks 
be to God, those :lines or restitution are et hand, and 
all the eppoeitinn of Pres. Mahan will not put oil' the 
glorious work. Even no come, Lord Jesus, Amen 
For the &land Advent. 
A SHORT sEranclu. 
CI.A11104,110.U, AUG. Ri. 1843. 
Dear Bro. Fitch-Local circumstances being of peel, 
a character as to render it irnmweible for me to do an 
much by the way of lecturing an I desire to do, 1 !rave 
thenght of contributing my mite, (with your cement 
and tine grace of God motioning me,) through the toe. 
drum of your paper. I shell therefore eubmit to your 
deposal a few thought. mgeested by the reeding of 
the ,kel,,,,ation or Clod ad found in Genesis 3: 15,-
where the enmity whiell we find existing between the 
humble follower. of !tans, and the eery.n of the dev-
il, in find hrought to yew. In pluming the thought', 
etiegeoted by the above passage. I retail enquire 
First.-Who the Bible denominate', the seed of the 
moment. 
Second.-Who the peed of the went.. 
Third.-Ilow, and it lion, the enmity between them 
will rem., 
1. �
Who are the seed of the serpents' 
Let the Bible 
answer. elatt. 3: 7, '•11,ii when he caw Many of lire 
Plittrieeee, and eleilducen. 'tome to kin baptism, lie said 
tittle them, 0 ip,neralion or vireos alto hod, warned 
yoli lo flee fr �
 the emelt to comer Meithew 11: 
:14. "0 generation el vipers how coo yu, being evil, 
.peak good thing.. For amt of the alnuidence cur the 
heart the month eperthellt." Mott. 2:lt 33, �
net.. 
steel of the vetpent. Hence toe ere to regal,' all 
witeeel aromas of whatever nem, or nation they are, 
ne the head of the aerpent; and who can look in the 
Bible, and learn the character of that eetel ne there 
183 murders and ti5 euieidei. During the rout ins 
nunitlis of 1843, the murders were 215, the suicides 
Ilro. Scurtituu, of the Midnight Cry, wish'. no to 
laivou,) fora season. Luke 4: 13. Paul sail to the �
Ise. 51: 3, '•For the Lord droll comfort Zion; be apostle declares to Inc Roman brethren, that "the God I worthy oe online, they are at your service. The flat 
will comfort all her wnote lilac.; and Le will make 
false prophet Batleeue, "Thou shalt he 111 nd, not ere• i
or rear', ellen bruise Satan under your feet ohortly." tires seen by Mr. Bishop and some of his fatally. They 
den of the Lord."
Again in Hebrews, 2: 14, "Forestauch then as the say that they maw �
Thurelay night, August �
(the 
ing the sun (akri kaivou) fora season, Acts 13: 11. �
wilderiteee like Eden, and her desert like the fur. 
The ordinary use of the word, however, is the �
Inc.
I4O. 55: 13, "NW., 
 of the there child-en ere partaker. of flesh and blood, lie (Christ) moon being in the first qua•ter,) a Also moon moving 
fled teach until (akri) the day in which he wan taken 
op," Acts �
2. "Jerneelem shall be trodden down of 
the Gentiles until (akri) the (lines of the Gentiles are 
faLled," Luke 21: 24. "His sepulchre is with us , 
until (akri) this day," Acts 2: 29. Until (.kris) 
'another king arose," Acts, 7: 18. "And talked along 
while even till (akris) break of day," Acts 20: II. 
"Until (akris) the law, sin was in the world," Rom 
0; 13. "The whole creation groaneth and travailed' 
in psi', together until (akri) now," Run. Sr 22. 
"Blindness in part brill, happened to bract until 
(.kris) the Minces of the Gentilie be come in," Rom. 
lIt 25. "The law was added because of trarengres-
eion, until (akris) the seed should come to whom the 
promises were made," Gal. 3: 19. "But is under 
tutors and governors until (akri) the time appointed 
of the Father," Gal. 4: 2. "That thou hest hold 
fast till (akris) 1 come," Rev.2: 25. These instances 
are sufficient to slow, that in the ordinary use of the 
word, alai, it has reference to a future time when a 
given event is to take place, like until; and that it 
does not refer, like dining, to the whole progress of 
time that is to precede that event." 
Morn, then, is the President's authority from the 
Bible, for altering the phrase (alai kronua epokata-
stasis patetou,) until the times of restitution or all 
'things, toenake it lead during the time of reformation?. 
'We do notosk, where is his authority from the win-
elontof .thie world, for that 4 foolishness with God, . 
and is noanteurity at all. lint we do ask, where is I hese are things whkh God hue spoken by the mouth 
,dently two ride. $3, ioterreettog the .criptoree, to things they will come to pass. "All things which 
God bath spoken by the mouth of all the holy prop!, 
towards the true one, from beneath it, and join iteelf 
to it on the right. Above the two conjoined they saw 
a female profile which afterwards became bright and 
this purpose the Son of God was manife.ted, that het blazing-. Soon they formed near'y a full moon, the 
might destroy the works of the devil." Again, ft blitz, continuing; and there appeared a cross on the 
Rev. 2a; 1-2, "abort I saw an angel come down from dick of the then appearance of the moon. Afierwards 
heaven, Issuing the Ley of the bottomless pit and a the cross changed to a cloud of the shape of a come 
great chain in his hand, and lie laid hold on the drag- aeon "ewe, jug," when the moon, remaining 01. oho 
on, that old serpent, which is the devil, and Satan, same appearance went down supernaturally quick. 
and bound him a thotoand yearn." �
Also. on the next Monday evening, a number of 
Now as Paul tells tha Roman., that it is the God of the citizens of Hudson saw a belt of light, or clout, 
peace, that shall bruise Satan, and, as in the Hebrews, 
that it is him that took a part of flesh and blood, that 
ISFIMAEL AND THE TEMFL MILLENNIUM. 
The prediction of the angel before Ishmael was 
born, was, "And he will be a wild man, hie hand will 
be against every man, and every man's hand againes 
hint; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his 
brethren," Gen. lit: 12. 11 the preservation of Isaac's 
descendants, in the line of the Hebrew nation, a die-
tinct people to this day, !teetered and peeled as they 
have been, is remarkable, that of 'stunners demer.d• 
ants for the same space of time, always on the same 
territ,y, is barely leis so. Although eometimes har-
nessed and pillaged by the great comp:emirs of an-
tiquity, the country of Ishmael has neverlieen at any 
lime subdued, never paid tribute. He shell dwell in 
the presence of all his brethren. As long as men 1:ve 
on the earth he dial! bean unconquered people. The 
other two points of the prophecy: he will le a wiz, 
man-his hand against every man, have al. Lae a like 
fulfilment, running parallel with the other. The 
prophecy has been fulfilling tor 3700 years, and rr011ia 
the term. or the prediction we nee not hour the de-
scendents of lehmael, as a Cody, can ever be convert-
ed, an the temporal millennium theory supposes. 1 
may be further r. marked, that Mehemet was among 
the descendants of him, who, when a eltild.'wal cast 
under a shrub to die of thirst, deserted by his mother. 
P. 
NIARis Ittcr.-This devoted sister is still !a-
lining in 11. Slate. She lectured recently at Bata- 
via, ani Pine 11111, Genesee Co ; �
Attics. Wyoming 
Co., near which 'dace she wa. lecturing Oct 3d. 'I'nw 
effect is good, wherever she goes. -Md. Cry. 
THE IIARVF:ST. 
The fields era all white, the harvest is near, 
Theresper. now with their sheep Pieklt a appear 
To i.e.'. dawn Ile wheat and gather in barns, 
Whine wild Omit, of nature are suffered to burn. 
come then, 0 my runt, 
 meditate on that day 
When al thing. in nature. Ethel cease and decay; 
When the trumpet shalt 'Mend. and the ange'esppear. 
To realm down oho earth, both the wheat and the tete. 
lint Ilene the cad cry diet tomenclit to the thy, 
Or tho, in dhow. and hal, nowhere to �
• 
NI will tall pin the ro, km and the mounluuns to fell 
On their naked souls and conceal them withal, 
lInt 'twill he in rain, Mr the numittains moat nee, 
The rock' fly tike hodelonew and sot more shalt he, 
The earth too .hull quake, and One s,•11 chap retire, 
And 111.10 solid Pier it Nhan !heti bpi Olt tiri•. 
-••••••••------ • ossssdastasA.M1111.1.04pissirse 
work.: 14, the not being Ruble to dent'', pin. 
grief Or tetriptation. 
"One ground of many of these mietekes 
is, the taking every fresh, strung eitphotthee 
euf any of the, seripturee tit the bean. to 11, 
gift a a new kid; notwitli,taiidiog ?het 
several of these scriptures nre not fulfilled 
yet; that mart of the others no, fulfilled when 
we are imtithot; the rest, thrt moment we, Ins 
anictilicd. 
It rem tins only to experience 
them in higher degrees: this is all we have' 
to expect. 
"Another ground or thee., and a thousand' 
mistake., is, the not considering deeply, tint 
liner is the highest gift of God; humble, gen-
tle, patient love; that n11 visions, 
monifestatione whatever, are little thinge 
compared to love; and that all the gifts above 
mentioned are the sumo with, or infinitively 
inferior to it. 
"It were well you should Ire thoroughly 
sensible of this' the heaven of heavens is 
love. There is nothing higher in religion: 
there is, in effect, nothing else; it' you look 
for nay thing but more love, you are looking 
wide of the mark, you are getting out of the 
royal way. And when your are asking where 
have you received this or that blessing/ If 
you mean any thing but more lore, you are 
wrong; you ore leadieg them out of the way 
and putting them upon a (*.dee scent. Settle 
it then in your hear:, that (tom the moment 
God his saved you from sin, you are to nom 
to nothing more, but more of that love de- 
scribed in the thirteenth of the first epistle to 
the Corinthians. You can go no higher than 
this, till you are carried iuto Abraham's bo- 
som. 
"I• say again beware of enthusiasm. 
Such 
as imagining you have the gift of prophesy-
ing, or the discerning of spirits, which I do 
not believe ono of you has, no, nor ever had 
yet. Beware of judging people to be either 
right or wrong. by your own feelings. This 
is no Scriptural way of judging. Oh, keep 
close to the law, and to the testimony." 
A Voice from Ibis Epiar.hpul 
Church. 
OM honor 
 tart 
spring of addressing you oti the subject of 
the advent a our Limit I then elated that 1 
iota 1111111ln to egret, wolf you ite PI the year 
Ili 13. I intended lay Ors only, flint I ma, 
total& to fix upon that definitely. Since 
thorn days of oempo,,eino dnrknea, (Ls!, us 
I liviiii110 with nil my bent:, 1111.1 brought Inv 
gloriously into the tell light and has placid 
my feet upon 1111:1, ny upon n rock, so limo 
Iv Dint all the gates of hellcannot drive 
It in �nig of thin thlt has brought 
me to lull I.ght. It will you, if you are equal. 
ly 
My denr !relined brethren throughout the 
amid, Christ will then evil telly come this 
mite it is the last year, lel not the devil&hot 
yeti from pier steeilfeetneee. God is Imietew• 
log 111.111 US It/11,1,1111g g1,111 11111111t. 14 Ia., 
Milting 111 tel milk,: up tied which lacketti let 
the side rings of kin hotly. 110W sweat �
io. 
besides ..1 reclean the 81111.,r111g1 Ul. 11114 
piesent time as not worthy to be compared 
with the glory which muil) los revealed tit us. 
AN ITALIAN ROMAN CATHOLIC 
OATII. 
We give below a copy of the Imitation Oath 
of a Society in Italy. It is furnished us by 
an estitnable Italian gentleman of this city, 
who is well knewn to very teeny, and is mov-
ing in the most respectalile society. Ile is a 
native of Lombardy, and a "Ltannee," in 
his native country, Italy; a lovely land, 
but crushed and trodden under foot. by the 
most enormous imposture priest-craft which 
ever visited the world in any age. 
Ile was 
a sufferer for Liberty; and he escaped to this 
asylum of liberty.—This is the Oath which 
bound together the tyrants of Aostrimi and 
Italy, and their civil and spiritual serfs, where 
they too successfully crushed the risiog young 
liberty of Italy, when some thirteen years ago, 
she rose to put down evil and ghostly tyran-
ny. lie informs us that this society,bound to-
gether by the same Oath; exists• its this coun-
try; that there is a priest, and a• bond of them 
in Philadelphia, and in other cities. And 
should• a much coveted insterroction favor 
them, their daggers will be speedily put in 
requisition. We live in eventful times. Spain 
is manfully Shaking off' the yoke of Rome 
and Portugal is moving; and appalling Revo-
lution, we think, we perceive Lovering- in the 
horizon or Deland. May Almighty Gel 
have mercy on the dear Protestants ot'l reland 
and cover them by his omnipotence in the day 
of the approaching terrific conflict. And mite 
God rebuke the infatuated, or "Jesuitical,' 
Protestants, who in any way, or form, do 
help on the repeal movement." 'rite follow-
ing is the copy of the letter of our kaliatt 
friend.— Proteslane Vindicator. 
"lit a coeimie work nut yet republiehed its 
tide memory, I find the following form of (Yid, 
of Initiation of a member of tho Societe-, 'De 
Is Sante Fide; of our !lolly Trait''.' 
'•I. N—swear by the Most �
Trinity, 
to permit my right Ilona to be cue elf. or io die 
of hunger, or II/ die be the meet egeruciating 
tormentronither than to betrny, or-deceive ore, 
of the honored Vnthers' (Jeso r..) 'or broth• 
ens ef 14, Catholic Apostolic Soviet?, to 
which 1 belong; or, if 11 do not scrigetheiely 
keep in laws, or give asniritnneu to trey broth-
ors in distress. 1 swear, forever t 
amain 
in the, defence of Item �
111:11. I have em- 
braced; not to spare tits individeel belonging 
to the infamous bind ref Tee loneneto even 
to the lout drop,—without rep.' to sex, age. 
birth. Or C011iliii011. �
Finally, I ',wear en tin• 
platolile hatred to 1111. e 'entire tf oar soured 
and early true Raman Catholic church. 
And 
finlisig in This 0.111i, I do (test. vu, nod neon 
myself' 1 ell 111Viikii 6.,11/1,1CM1 rupiiisnIti;Nr as 
1 UK *PO MO OV Tine 01 User)," 
MOtt7i1.111 Vole, of ut all, what on (lath! 
THE JUDGMENT. 
110sr great, how terrible, that God. 
Who shakes creation with hie hod, 
110 110W114-,111111, era. all noture's flame, 
Sink in one universal flame. 
Whore now. 0 where, Weill sinner. nark 
For shelter it, the general wreck/ 
Shall fithing rucks he sir them throws! 
Sac rot Its, like meow, divsolvin down. 
In vaut for mercy now they cry; 
In lakes of tumid fire they lie: 
There, on the !laming billow. lost, 
For ever-0, forever lost! 
But. cantle, undaunted and serene. 
Your eyes shall view the ltreadrul scene; 
Your t111,10111' live, the world expire. 
And earth end skims dissolve in fire. 
Jesus, the helpless creature+ Friend, 
To thee my all I dare commend; 
Thou roust urererve my weld,' soul, 
When lightnings blaze front pule to pole. 
31y wakened soul, extend thy wine., 
!Suomi the verge of mortal things; 
See thi: vain ...arid in sinohe decay, 
And route and mountains well away. 
tieMad the fiery delay, roll, 
Thro' loosen's wide arch teem pole to pole; 
Pule sun, no inure thy lustre boast: 
Tremble and hill, ye starry host. 
This wreck or nature all around--
The an%el's shout, the trumpet'. eound, 
Lou.I the ile,ceisling Judge proclaim, 
And echo his tremenhou: name. 
Children of Adorn, all appear 
with reverence round his awful but; 
For as his lips pronrunce, ye go 
To endless bliss, or, sndless tool 
Lord to my eyes this scene display, 
Frequent thiough each returning day; 
And lei thy grace my soul prpare 
To meet its lull redemption there. 
WESLEY'S ADVICE TO METHO-
DISTS. 
John Wesley was an ardent Adventist, and 
was looking for the Lord to come about this 
tints. 
Ile was the founder of a powerful and 
respected sec,, whom he cautioned against 
departing from the letter of the Word as 
follows: 
Brethren—"Beware of that daughter of 
pride, enthusiasm! 
Oh! keep at the utmost 
d.etance from it; give no place to heated im-
aginations. 1)u not hastily ascribe things to 
God. Do not easily suppose dreams, voices, 
impressions, visions, or revelations to be from 
God. They may be from him; they may he 
from nature; they may be from the devil. 
Therefore 'believe not every spirit, but try 
the spirits whether they be of God.' 
Try all 
things by the written word, and let all bow 
dew!' before it. You are in danger of enthu-
siastn every hour, if you depart ever so little 
coon Scripture; yea. or from the literal mean-
ing of any text, taken in connection with the 
context. And so you are, if you despise, or 
lightly esteem reason, knowledge, or human 
kerning,: every one of which is an excellent 
gift of God, and may serve the noblest pur-
poses. 
"I advise you never to use the words 1148e 
dent, reason or knowledge by way of reproach. 
the the contrary, pray that you yourself may 
abound in them more and more. If you mean 
worldly wisdom, useless knowledge. false 
reasoning, say so: and throw away the chaff 
bet not the wheat. • 
',One general inlet to enthusiasm is, ex-
pecting the end without the means; the expect-
ing knowledge, for instance, without search• 
lug the Scripture, and consulting the children 
of God: the expecting spiritual strength with-
heat constant prayer, and steady watchfulness: 
the expecting any blessing without hearing 
the weld of God at every opportunity. 
.‘Some have been ignorant of this device 
of Satan. They have left off searching the 
Scriptures. They said 'God writes nil the 
Scripture on my heart, therefore I have no 
"need to iced it.' Others thought they had 
not so much need of henring, anti no grew 
sleek in attending preaching. Olt, take were-
tog, you who are cuncerned herein. You 
itirti Detented tattle voice of It stranger. Fly 
beck to Chi ist, and keep in the good old way, 
which was "once delivered to the saints.' 
°The very desire of growing in grace, 
may sometimes be an inlet OS' entlitolinsin.--
t I it coromnually leads us to seek nein grace, 
any lend us unawares to seek something 
new, beeid,,s ?VW degrees of love to u,nd sued 
man. So it has led sumo to fancy they had 
received pills of a new kind, after a new 
lieert. as, t. The loving God with all our 
mind: 2, with all our soul: 3. with all our 
elrength: 4, oriole. with God: 5, 011011,14 
with Christ: 0, having our lives bid with 
: 7, b •iiig steel with Christ; le, raising 
a idi lent: 11. ifin sitting welt him in heaven. 
le pleeee: 10, the being tnketi up into- his 
'home: II, the being in New Jeritealem: 
It, the owing the telernnele of aid come 
der, a among men: 13, the being dead to all 
to her first love, her seducer is offended be-
cause site will tio longer submit to his rite ca. 
reeses. •"A woke. awake! put on thy strength. 
0 daughter of Zion, put on thy beautiful 
garinentn, 0 Jeruealem, the holy City: foe 
henceforth thew shall no more come unto 
thee the uncircumcised or the unclean; shako 
thyself from the dust, arise and sit down, 0 
Jerusalem, loose thyself from the bands of 
thy neck. 0 captive daughter of Zion. For 
them saith the Lord, ye have sold yourselves 
for nought; ye shall be redeemed without 
money." ...Say to the daughter of Zion, thy 
salvation cometh." "Sing, 0 daughter of 
Zion. Shout, 0 Israel." And here, without 
carrying out my meaning, I will observe that 
when the church unities to the entire tense• 
cretin°, perfect holiness of the . primitive 
church, all things which followed then will 
foilow now. God halts never taken away 
OilC of her jewels, but she east them oil' 
hereeli when she embraced the man of sin. 
Lot now, thank God, she is forsaking him 
sod will soon become that glorious bride 
which Christ will present unto himself with-
out spot or wrinkle. 
Dear brethren, I long to see and embrace 
you all, that 1 may be comforted together 
with you by the mutual faith both of yob and 
me. �
I wilt not be cruel enough to notice some 
names to the exclusion of others. But all 
will cry Amen, when i soy of father Miller, 
O zebus honor has God brotowed upon him. 
If Abraham was the leader of ancient be-
lievers, Miller is of the last day believers. 
0 for shame! men will say, that I should hp 
such a little child its to believe this. My 
consolaton is -or such is the kingdom of 
heaven," whilst "him that bath u proud heart 
I will not suffer." "The Lord hateth a proud 
kick and a lying tongue," for both go together. 
for "the day of the Lord is on every one that 
is proud." The history of the church shows 
that in till ages. those of weak faith have 
spoken against these of stronger faith. This 
is a device of the devil to keep the chinch from. 
appenring in its true light. Strange thee 
mankind will pretend to been a knowledge of 
the philosophy of history end yet persevere 
in speaking out of that which they understood. 
net. This has been the ease w its nay beloved-
people. God having carried me in Ugh so foe 
ahead them, they town concluded Oita they. 
cannot keep no, so have reepirstekt ma to iv,. 
sign that they might etepply themselves with- 
blower leatkir— henceforth the o I ton free 
indeed. even of these "bonds," no longer to' 
be the she:lister of them, but �
Chriet, what 
the ••fiell is the solid." Yours 111 
bovu', �
GI,oson. A• 
Ideotington, Ct. Sept. etli, 1843. 
---• 
Chriet, mill more so the pest whiter, but nut �
If tile woe d is,ever to he overiprorol by any 
until the preseel week has the liberty been sect the eatarterors urn the. Githoliee, fir it is 
entire, the attorifico complete; is t:t as the written, with the enittlitilde pen of ii,piralh.,t• 
true interpretntion ,,r the 2300 days wits the that they shell prevail all the A neieut of ti-.y 
truth then that brought this blessing of God come.; till jieleiiii•nt is g:veti bt the saint. .'. 
t 1 my eon!. We are sanctified by the truth:. the blest Digt,; tiled., tines comes when eau 
Dude received in, es it were, a conductor saints shall iorcra Slur kingikm. 
'NIX VII V, or Foirrie.—.% thither in tit• 
central. prim of Ohio, pieked rip 11 St 1,1111 ill 
vent passer in 11 1/31. 10.1111. tvlucll 11,1 11.11 /./.• 
nutty to endow, the bows, which he holds 
very steillueelve �
hilur iiseighlreens ace ell 'lee:- 
not true- And though L orep the scorn ul sod, nod *eine of t111,11 �
rk-lose Ilk 
the world, tiny mew is even oe tint, its though hint tian-,mr *eh. at foe earl', no they thick have 
Revelling open the oehil reek, facing sill no-n ereey. 
and WOrning, them, eeeire will tenet, Lek �
• 
year- -the Anal is fallilkik 
Glut y to laud. �
'1`1111115. 
Iiiiti•heetng reader, "haw rim you �The prise of stai.uription is t:5 seises liar tne,r0 
whit:'' secsire Ironer on., of :mother, and reek 
No01114,11.. Most of the hack mum., err be tort.sh 
not the la 11..if ONO C.11114.1h from �
4.•, al i, new Ng,„„„,b,,„, if d.-eirea. 
therefrom, fur he thud is with me is greater I anvil to think, a few muntlin since, when 1 
than he that is egainet nie, I publicly testify. was floating along cheered by the public np • 
my unspeaknble gratitude to our dear Re. phew for my pour tit.nviterkul efforts, thet 
deerner fur this renewed expression of his I lusty of Scripture fuel Coronas obsolete. '1'11,11 
mercy--fur not pormatiog me to be it, any l, it 'tidy required the reetil 'tor tit' good serums 
darkness when the "glory to be revealed" ielin order to live godly in Christ Jesus will �
I 
ert near. 
A few months since I found myself i pereeeutien, �
ut tel so. 
k �
. 
falling from that high and sweet communion ! ls. a greet portion of the Scriptures lust their 
with Jesus which I erj.yeil early it. the opting 1 pnelical meanies; when in the 111,01 century 
and winter, I had however previously re• 1 the dear bride of Christ went tit sleep in the 
solved by God's grace, that I would nut fall i arras of the wend, then she Ix carne atlUlterou4 
front that standard. I prayed and prayed, j and submitted to the desires of sinful men; 
but tttill found meself no nearer. In the but now that alio ii openting and returning 
mean time I had neglected this glorious doc-
trine, supposing that the advent might not be 
in ten or twenty years. In this state of mind 
a brother called, in whose judgment 1 had 
great confidence. De told 1110 there was no 
..if" about Jesus coming this year. 'Phis 
moved me. I fell upon my knees and prayed 
with all my heart fur more light. '1.'he power 
of God was restored immediately; this was 
satisfactory to me that the countenance of 
Jesus was turned from me chiefly because of 
insufficient devotedness to his truth. Still the 
blessed Spirit was not satisfied: something was 
in the way. I knew it was, because as yet 
I did not believe the truth, and that so soon as 
I should receive it the Spirit would be satis-
fied. I have great struggles. I said to my 
friends that it was my impression that if 1 
could say 1843, the blessing world inrne-
diately flow. But of this 1 was run sofikileittly 
certain to affirm, felting that alieete!1i it ap-
peared to be the true interp,e,at;kin,sa.1 their: 
might be a mistake in �
wheel it, the tote 
would prove my folly. 1.1 the Sparc of two 
or three days, however, I obiliiied some peace 
with much continued power so soon as I could 
say with all my heart right at the door. The 
difference between the witness and that which 
I received the past whiter, consisted only in 
bringing the day of the Lord nearer. it 
scented it might be this year, but I was not 
certain, therefoo) still did not have boldness 
to declare the whole council of God. In this 
sad condition I remained till the camp•meeting 
began in Stepnee, near me. I then went, 
but was net fully one of then',, did not dare 
to open my mouth in order to avoid the impu-
tation, of 1813.. Returning home, 1 said to 
myself, why not say 184:31 Is nut the fight 
greater on this than upon nay other year, 
and' is not the light upon Dny vete, great/ 
Why not then &ay so) Because, if if atrotrld 
not prove true 1 should be ashamed. If it 
were a popular matter, a day fur the intro-
duction of a spiritual reign, would I not soy 
that 1 believe ill lily conscience answered 
yes. Then I will nut proclaim what I believe 
through fear of man. Such a condition 1 
despise, both by nature and grace, added to 
this I was assured that to say 1043 would nut 
displease my Redeemer, and nut to say it, 
might. 1 resolved in his strength to proclaim 
it, offering tip myself a living sncrifice to be 
"despised and rejected of mee." 'Chat tee-
rifle°, poor as it is, was accepted and sealed 
to my soul's satisfuciion. The following tiny 
I returned and entered the camp of the saints 
in the wilderness a free man, in the freedom 
whereby God (loth make us free, enjoying the 
full liberty of the 30113 or the Almighty. I 
dim:glut 1 had twee made a freeman before. 
when many years ago I was converted to 
along which the holy Giles* flows into the 
soul. the Spirit thereby entering to it so that 
the Christian rutty IN'1,111110 absolutely eel lain. 
This faith boo never Inhered sake, 'Flip Net 
that 1 have oievinedt till to their truth. 113% never 
tondo ate shketTer through fear led it prove